Improvement in cotton-seed planters



L. B.- BROWN.

Go'tton-Planter.

Patented Jan. 15, 1861 FNITED STATES ATENT IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-SEEDPLANTERS.

Specification forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 31,107, dated January15, 1861..

T0 all wlzom z't mag; concem:

Be it; kuown that I, LEWIS B. BROWN, 0f Sereven countsy, State 0fGeorgia, have invented a new and useful machine for planting anddrilling eotton-seed and coru am] other seeds, also for the spreadingguano und 1 do hereby declare that tl1e following is a full, clear, andexact description 0f be construc- Uion and operation of the samerefereuce Dein g had to the annexed drawings, making a part; of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is an isomebrical perspective vie'w;Fig. 2, a horizontal view or plan, showing the iuteriorof the hopperFig. 3, a seotion. Figs. 4 and 5 are feed-wheels 01 distributiug-wheelst0 be substituted f0r the wheel R in planting corn or spreading manure.

My invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the variousparts, a's hereinafter set forth.

A center wheel,Rprovided with short amns P P P, revolves With driving-wheel's 3 3, being attached 110 the same axle, und carries the seed downLhr0ugh the hopperH and distributes in along the furrow made by the plowmarked 1 and small wheel marked 2. The seed is COV- ered by the dra-gmarked 7, attached to the ream end 01" Lhe hopper O. Tw0 other fo'rrnsfor distributiug-wheels are shown in Figs. 4 and 5-the one in F1g. 5 forplanting corn and the one in Fig. 4 for smaller seeds.

F F F is a sliding rack attzaehed 130 the driving-wheels 3 3. II; isprovided with spikes or plus z 13 z, incliningtoward the center of thehopper O, and covering the distributing-wheel R. As the driving-wheelsrevolve this sliding rack keeps the seed or grain from clogging andfeeds the distributing-wheel uniformly.

What I clain1 as my invenbion, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The sliding rack F F, wich incliued pins M,

in eombination withthe' distributing-wheel R and driving-wheels 3 3, thewhole constr ucted and arranged substantially as and for the purposesset fortb.

L. B. BROWN. Wilmesses:

NATHAN GORDY, B. G. BROWN.

